Famous Blindfold Poems by Famous Poets

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75. Halloween

...low.—R. B. [back]
Note 15. Take three dishes, put clean water in one, foul water in another, and leave the third empty; blindfold a person and lead him to the hearth where the dishes are ranged; he (or she) dips the left hand; if by chance in the clean water, the future (husband or) wife will come to the bar of matrimony a maid; if in the foul, a widow; if in the empty dish, it foretells, with equal certainty, no marriage at all. It is repeated three times, and every time the...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


A poem on the rising glory of America

.... 
How fallen, Oh! 
How much obscur'd is human nature here! 
Shut from the light of science and of truth 
They wander'd blindfold down the steep of time; 
Dim superstition with her ghastly train 
Of dæmons, spectres and forboding signs 
Still urging them to horrid rites and forms 
Of human sacrifice, to sooth the pow'rs 
Malignant, and the dark infernal king. 
Once on this spot perhaps a wigwam stood 
With all its rude inhabitants, or round 
Some mighty fire an hundred savage...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry

Balin and Balan

...ment down, leaned on it, 
Leapt in a semicircle, and lit on earth; 
Then hand at ear, and harkening from what side 
The blindfold rummage buried in the walls 
Might echo, ran the counter path, and found 
His charger, mounted on him and away. 
An arrow whizzed to the right, one to the left, 
One overhead; and Pellam's feeble cry 
'Stay, stay him! he defileth heavenly things 
With earthly uses'--made him quickly dive 
Beneath the boughs, and race through many a mile 
Of dense a...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Blind

..."Love is blind" has never seemed
So true? If, in a flash of blinding light
I see Justice drop her scales, yank off

Her blindfold, stand revealed--a monster-god
With spidery arms and a mouth like a black hole--
While I leap, ant-sized, at her feet, blinded
By tears, raging blindly as, sense by sense, 
My mother is sucked away?...Read more of this...
by Webb, Charles

Evening Primrose

...anew
Its delicate blossoms to the dew;
And, hermit-like, shunning the light,
Wastes its fair bloom upon the night,
Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,
Knows not the beauty it possesses;
Thus it blooms on while night is by;
When day looks out with open eye,
Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,
It faints and withers and is gone....Read more of this...
by Clare, John


Hyperion

...e
Each day from east to west the heavens through,
Spun round in sable curtaining of clouds;
Not therefore veiled quite, blindfold, and hid,
But ever and anon the glancing spheres,
Circles, and arcs, and broad-belting colure,
Glow'd through, and wrought upon the muffling dark
Sweet-shaped lightnings from the nadir deep
Up to the zenith,---hieroglyphics old,
Which sages and keen-eyed astrologers
Then living on the earth, with laboring thought
Won from the gaze of many centuries...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

I Have Become Very Hairy

...ooks like an air photo of a railway station.

At night my body is open and awake under the blanket,
like eyes under the blindfold of someone to be shot.

Restless I shall wander about;
hungry for life I'll die.

Yet I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed,
and tranquil, like a full cemetery....Read more of this...
by Amichai, Yehuda

Lightning

...blood-swept ears was the sound
    Of the words I kept repeating,
Repeating with tightened arms, and the hot blood's blindfold art.

Her breath flew warm against my neck,
    Warm as a flame in the close night air;
And the sense of her clinging flesh was sweet
Where her arms and my neck's blood-surge could meet.
    Holding her thus, did I care
That the black night hid her from me, blotted out every speck?

I leaned me forward to find her lips,
    And claim her ...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East

...ch of bale:
Uncoiling monstrous into street on street
Paven with perils, teeming with mischance,
Where man and beast go blindfold and in dread,
Working with oaths and threats and faltering feet
Somewhither in the hideousness ahead;
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews
That make the laden robber grin askance
At the good places in his black romance,
And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose
Go pinched and pined to bed
Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way
Fr...Read more of this...
by Henley, William Ernest

November

...,
Had found him sleeping, and supplied his place.
For days the shepherds in the fields may be,
Nor mark a patch of sky— blindfold they trace,
The plains, that seem without a bush or tree,
Whistling aloud by guess, to flocks they cannot see.

The timid hare seems half its fears to lose,
Crouching and sleeping 'neath its grassy lair,
And scarcely startles, tho' the shepherd goes
Close by its home, and dogs are barking there;
The wild colt only turns around to stare
At passer by...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

The Destroyers

...and our sacrifice.
Adown the stricken capes no flare --
 No mark on spit or bar, --
Birdled and desperate we dare
 The blindfold game of war.

Nearer the up-flung beams that spell
 The council of our foes;
Clearer the barking guns that tell
 Their scattered flank to close.
Sheer to the trap they crowd their way
 From ports for this unbarred.
Quiet, and count our laden prey,
 The convoy and her guard!

On shoal with carce a foot below,
 Where rock and islet throng,
Hidden and...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Trade

...They bear, in place of classic names,
 Letters and numbers on their skin.
 They play their grisly blindfold games
 In little boxes made of tin.
 Sometimes they stalk the Zeppelin,
 Sometimes they learn where mines are laid,
 Or where the Baltic ice is thin.
 That is the custom of "The Trade."

 Few prize-courts sit upon their claims.
 They seldom tow their targets in.
 They follow certain secret aims
 Down under, Far from strife or din.
 When they are re...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Thyrsis a Monody

...vely to-night!--
Only, methinks, some loss of habit's power
Befalls me wandering through this upland dim.
Once pass'd I blindfold here, at any hour;
Now seldom come I, since I came with him.
That single elm-tree bright
Against the west--I miss it! is it goner?
We prized it dearly; while it stood, we said,
Our friend, the Gipsy-Scholar, was not dead;
While the tree lived, he in these fields lived on.

Too rare, too rare, grow now my visits here,
But once I knew each field, eac...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

Vanity of the World

...nded by a thousand stings.

'Tis thus the world rewards the fools
That live upon her treacherous smiles:
She leads them blindfold by her rules,
And ruins all whom she beguiles.

God knows the thousands who go down
From pleasure into endless woe;
And with a long despairing groan
Blaspheme the Maker as they go.

Oh fearful thought! be timely wise;
Delight but in a Saviour's charms,
And God shall take you to the skies,
Embraced in everlasting arms....Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

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